The Ilhan Omar scandal just keeps growing.
Already, how her financial disclosure statements grew from $50,000 to $30 million, then dropped back again is under investigation. So is her immigration documentation which apparently was the subject of a law enforcement raid on her home this week.
Now those questions have grown, with a report confirming that she had her birthdate, in public records, changed after she joined Congress in 2018.
It is the New York Post that has revealed her staff “helped get her birthdate changed in public records once the Minnesota Democrat was elected to Congress in 2018, a switch that has since spurred frenzied accusations that she misrepresented her age to secure US citizenship.”
“The alteration could offer a big clue as to what federal immigration agents were searching for when they raided her DC home Monday: If the congresswoman is actually one year older than she’s claimed to be, that would mean she couldn’t have legally become a US citizen in 2000, critics contend,” the report said.
Omar’s birthdate had been listed in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library as Oct. 4, 1981, as well as on reference sites such as Wikipedia and in media outlets like the BBC, for the entire time she served in the state House and for several months into her congressional term, the report said.
But she apparently had her staff work to change that, to 1982, in May 2019 “after a video from a political opponent went viral that claimed Omar was fibbing about her age, according to emails reviewed by The Post.”
Here’s the entire Ilhan Omar legal story and attempt to cover the truth. Not long ago Ilhan Omar tried to block view of her immigration documents with help from a judge—in 2022, Ilhan Omar’s lawyers successfully got a Minnesota court to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to force disclosure of her naturalization/immigration documents. Primary challenger A.J. Kern (who ran against Omar in the DFL primary) sued in Hennepin County District Court (case 27-CV-22-7391). Kern asked the court to compel Omar (and fellow challenger Don Samuels) to produce proof of naturalization so their names could be placed on the ballot, arguing that foreign-born candidates must show they meet the constitutional citizenship requirement for the U.S. House. Kern also named Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon. Omar’s attorneys (including Charles Nauen) moved to dismiss. Judge Bridget A. Sullivan granted the motions and dismissed the case on July 1, 2022. Key reasons included: – The filing was untimely for a Chapter 209 election contest (must generally come after the canvass, not pre-election). – Lack of subject-matter jurisdiction — state courts have limited authority over U.S. House eligibility questions; under the Constitution (Art. I, §5), the House itself has the final say on the qualifications of its members. – Improper service on Omar. – Alternative ballot-correction claims belonging in the Minnesota Supreme Court, not district court. The bottom line is that the documents were not produced through that court action. Kern later obtained USCIS/DHS responses (via FOIA-style requests) stating that no naturalization record could be located for Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed (under various name variants). Omar has long claimed derivative citizenship through her father as a minor in 2000 and has denied related allegations. This sits alongside other efforts to access or scrutinize the records (congressional subpoena motions that were blocked, FOIA withholdings by ICE citing ongoing enforcement proceedings under exemption 7(A), and long-standing claims about her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Elmi and questions about her exact age/birth year for derivative citizenship). Those claims have never produced public court findings of fraud or denaturalization, though Omar has consistently called them false or politically motivated. Most recently on October 12, 2026 Homeland Security Investigations executed a court-authorized search warrant at her DC-area home as part of a federal criminal investigation focused on possible immigration fraud involving childhood paperwork (reportedly filled out by her late father). Subpoenas have gone to some relatives. A federal judge in DC signed off after review of probable cause; the underlying warrant materials remain sealed, as is standard. Omar has called the search an effort to target political opponents. No charges have been filed. In short, the 2022 Minnesota case is the clearest example of Omar’s side using the courts to prevent compelled public production of the immigration/naturalization documents in question. The current federal probe is a separate, active matter.
— JP (@J_P1776) October 14, 2026
She’s claimed she got citizenship through her father “as a minor in 2000,” but the report suggested that may not have been the case.
“On May 17, 2019, Library staff were informed by Rep. Omar’s congressional staff that her birth year was incorrect and requested that we change it to 1982,” wrote the director of the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library in an email just days after the change was made.
Omar repeatedly has denied any misbehavior, blaming all of her troubles on President Donald Trump’s “obsession” with her.
This week she called it “political intimidation.”
It was Homeland Security Investigations agents who raided her Washington home this week, on a court ordered signed by a judge.
Critics have charged that for her to become a citizen as a minor her father had to naturalize, and she had to still be a minor.
A commentary by JD Rucker suggested that her obtaining citizenship through her father also would be problematic, even if she was still a minor.
“For years she has sold America the clean version. Her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was an educator. The family fled Somalia’s civil war with the rest of the refugees and arrived in 1995. Her 2020 memoir paints the same picture of ordinary people escaping chaos,” he explained.
But he said now Post reports confirm historian and Oxford doctoral researcher Mohamed Haji Ingiriis confirmed Hur “misrepresented himself as a refugee” to U.S. authorities.
Actually, he was a full colonel in Siad Barre’s military regime, the blog post said.
“Ilhan’s father was never an educator,” Ingiriis said. “Nur Said was a military officer who was loyal to the regime until the end. He was part and parcel of those who caused and created the mayhem they ‘fled’ to live comfortably in the United States. … He only fled when the dictatorship fell in 1991. He was the beneficiary of the military regime and should not have been given asylum whatsoever.”
Rucker explained, “Former army officer Yusuf Ismail Faraton, who served with him and later moved to Minneapolis, said Nur led multiple brigades, became a regiment commander, and played a significant role in the Somali-Ethiopian war of 1977-78. After the regime collapsed he ran the Daynuunaay military school. The family went to Kenya first, then claimed refugee status in America.”
The report the Barre regime “killed as many as 200,000 people. In the north it conducted a campaign against the Isaaq clan that flattened cities with aerial bombardment, poisoned wells, and laid more than a million landmines on grazing lands.”
The United Nations, in 2001, accused the faction of “genocide.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband is spotted outside their Washington, D.C., home just one day after federal agents raid the property as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Fox News Digital captures Tim Mynett walking a dog before entering the residence, as two sources familiar with the investigation say authorities are examining immigration paperwork filed on Omar’s behalf when she was a child.
The development comes as federal prosecutors separately investigate the Minnesota Democrat’s financial disclosures, following questions about changes in her husband’s reported business assets.
Read what investigators are examining: https://t.co/RaqdP0PtuD
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 13, 2026
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